hardinparamedic:arentol: Actually it was one of those "tactical flash lights" which are designed specifically to double as a weapon. They are more painful than deadly, but they are very painful and can do significant actual damage if used right.

sure haven't:My wife and I have been watching a bit of it, and... she just sounds like a dullard.Can't articulate sentences.Gets standard phrasing wrong (for example she's an "all intensive porpoises" type)Stutters and stammers out her point.

What in the blue f*ck? By the time you become a judge, shouldn't you be assured on your feet??

Magorn:BigNumber12: redmid17: Ripping a new one =/= blatantly favoring the state

Yep. There's been nothing clever or impressive about it. It's been an "I'm the boss of this room, and I don't like you" tantrum the whole time.

or, basically, a judge doing his job and correctly applying the rules of evidence no matter what Farklawyers think abou it. I've yet to see him make an evidentiary ruling I didn't correctly predict, except the one allowing in evidence of Martin's MJ use, I would have ruled that irrelevant or more prejudicial than probabtive, myself, but eveything has has been pretty much straight down the line and according to standard practice.

Magorn:BigNumber12: redmid17: Ripping a new one =/= blatantly favoring the state

Yep. There's been nothing clever or impressive about it. It's been an "I'm the boss of this room, and I don't like you" tantrum the whole time.

or, basically, a judge doing his job and correctly applying the rules of evidence no matter what Farklawyers think abou it. I've yet to see him make an evidentiary ruling I didn't correctly predict, except the one allowing in evidence of Martin's MJ use, I would have ruled that irrelevant or more prejudicial than probabtive, myself, but eveything has has been pretty much straight down the line and according to standard practice.

King Something:fuhfuhfuh: The worst part of this whole trial is the fact that it was pushed to a national stage, rather than be dealt with in Florida (Florida laws and all). The investigation and trial probably would have been over by now had this whole story not been catapulted into the national spotlight. Honestly, who gives a crap about Florida's SYG law other than the residents of Florida?

The investigation and trial only happened in the first place because it was catapulted into the national spotlight, which in turn happened because the Sanford PD tried to sweep the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a (at the time presumed to be) white man under the rug.

/said investigation would eventually reveal that the shooter is not "white," he is "white-Hispanic"

What the fark is a "white Hispanic" - Is it different from a regular Hispanic

I have to admit, (as a guy with no emotional investment in the outcome of the case), that the whiny ineptitude of Zimmerman's defense team and the judge's impatience with it have provided some comic relief to the whole ugly affair.